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Slavery was over over a century ago and I won't presume to remind you about voting, but every kid born into this country re-learns the story fresh for the first time. You may be bored with it but it's new and shocking to him or to her. But then he needs a buffer of some sort -- "But it's not like that any more. We're all friends now." And he has to see proof that that's true.
Yes kids should be taught the history, how their black great great great grandparents were the losers in tribal wars in Africa and were sold by the victors to white sailors from around the world as slaves. That the majority of slaves were imported by Brazil not America.
Yes kids should be taught the history, how their black great great great grandparents were the losers in tribal wars in Africa and were sold by the victors to white sailors from around the world as slaves. That the majority of slaves were imported by Brazil not America.
First, that's not entirely true, and second, is that really what you think I meant?
How would payers and payees for slavery reparations even be possible to sort out? Payers would have to be among families who were here pre-1865, and it wouldn't make sense that non-slaveholding families in the North would be liable, but would descendants of non-slaveholding families who have a relative who fought for the Confederacy be liable? How do we know why he was fighting? Would non-slaveholding families of slave traders be liable? Slavery was legal until 1865 and many slaveholding families were not cruel, though it was a different time. What if there's no existing record of an enslaved ancestor?
What about the people with native American ancestry? They have a lot of bones to pick with the US government, broken treaties, stolen land, genocide, and huge tracks of land throughout the US that were taken. But we have to live with what happened in the past, and no one alive today was responsible for any of the horrible deeds of the past. What is proper compensation, the state of Oregon or our nation parks?
Yes kids should be taught the history, how their black great great great grandparents were the losers in tribal wars in Africa and were sold by the victors to white sailors from around the world as slaves. That the majority of slaves were imported by Brazil not America.
That was the way of the world back in the bad old days, people who were the losers in battle were enslaved by the victors, or treated almost live cattle, with no rights or privileges.
That was the way of the world back in the bad old days, people who were the losers in battle were enslaved by the victors, or treated almost live cattle, with no rights or privileges.
As our first African American president, should Barack Obama implement reparations, for African Americans? African Americans are still disproportionately poor, unemployed, targeted and profiled by law enforcement, and face many other injustices, based on their race. So, is it high time, that Obama get serious about reparations for African Americans now?
No.
I sympathise with the issue but this is not something that the President should push. The president should not consider any race in any decision.
We did not elect a Black President. We elected an American. This issue is for the people to figure out and we should (but don't) be responsible for our actions. We should learn we should move forward and advance but for a President to define history is wrong.
Should we prosecute a 90 year old man for killing a black kid in 1950 Mississippi because he was black? Absolutely.
Should we ask a President to rebuke our history? Absolutely
Should president make it an issue for is office? Not at all.
Not only is he a black President he is my President and that other guys President and that guy over there has him as a President to.
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